EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies

Locke2005 writes "In what promises to be one of the quickest threads to become Godwin'ed, YouTube has pulled scores of parodies of the 'Hitler Finds Out' scene from the movie The Downfall. Ironically, I had never heard of this movie before this — and now I want to watch it." Here is the EFF complaint. David Weinberger has posted some details on Google's Content Identification tool, which is being used in the shotgun takedowns.

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Re:MS Flight SImulator X parody

[syousef]

Wow! Something totally un-MS related and some fucktard still finds a way to slip it into the conversations. What a fucking zealot.

Actually I wrote extensively against Microsoft's DRM on FSX in number of places including the MS Flight Sim newsgroup at the time. It's the second hit if you type in FSX and DRM into Google. I totally hate that they killed off the franchise. Don't let reality get in the way of your anonymous name calling though.

By the way you should get a refund on your education. You clearly fail comprehension: You don't understand how a parody of FSX based on a movie is related to the topic of parodies of that movie.

You, sir, make those Jehovah Witness kooks look like mere amateurs.

Well lets insult a religious group as well as a tech company while simultaneously ranting about a post being off topic. I sincerely hope you're trolling because otherwise you are just too stupid for words.